Batik Making in Sa Pa: Learn, Paint & Take Home Your Masterpiece

I had a wonderful time with Pang. She was a great instructor, showing me step by step how the batik process works. Loved it!

We did the beeswax painting activity in Sa Pa and it was really a lot of fun. Chili, our guide, was very cheerful and gave us good advice for painting, then let us paint independently. I highly recommend it, Thank you, Chili

Brilliant cultural experience, Chi is a fantastic teacher and was very patient with me. The art room is surrounded outside with an abundance of beautiful plants. If you are in Sapa for a few days do this art class first so that you have time to dye your masterpiece before collecting it when you leave. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Very good experience. My teacher was very friendly, I explain everything calmly and in detail. It has been very instructive and fun, I have learned a lot also about the culture and history surrounding the Batik. Recommended 100%.

Chi was fantastic and showed us the technique and allowed us to create two of our own items to bring back. I am not very crafty or artsy so to see the the batik pieces that I created was fun. So glad I took this class!

it was a fun experience during a very foggy boring day. the teacher was incredibly warm and funny. she was patient and shared with us anecdotes of the Hmong people which we really enjoyed while painting.

An interesting use of time on a foggy day. Good, not excellent. We expected to learn a little about Batik - its history and use in Sapa. But this wasn’t given, we managed to extract some information via questions towards the end. We assumed the instructor would be a specialist in Batik and may talk about their own experience and share examples of their own work. They appeared to be a trekking instructor, and did not have any examples of work which was a shame. We anticipated they would first demonstrate the technique before we had to try, and to be present to give guidance and tips through the experience. They didn’t and weren’t. We were given an IPhone of images to choose, a pencil and cloth and left to start. They were reading their phone and stepping away often from the table. They told us the end time was 30 mins earlier than the activity duration. They dyed the cloth - it would have been nice to do this ourselves. The wax stayed on, which I dont believe is the final product, as there was insufficient time. We were happy with our items but did feel we ran the activity ourselves and they could have been better with more tuition.

What a bad experience. Terrible quality of the service. The woman leading the workshop wasn’t even there the majority of the time. At the end they lost our paintings and the ones that we received back after being coloured were terrible quality.

Absolutely amazing experience! We were warmly welcomed and offered complimentary drinks, then sat down to our practice stencils and then moved onto our own designs, we were given lots of guidance throughout and we left feeling relaxed and really grateful to have such a lovely souvenir <3

It was wonderful to paint using bees wax and create patterns onto fabric. Our teacher was lovely. Her English was limited so it was more along the lines of watch what she's doing and follow suite. There was not enough time to dye our art works, but she provided is the due and instructions to complete our works at home. It was definitely worthwhile if you love to create. Thank you